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become the adolescent equivalent of a genuine
revolutionary—rather than a rebel—that is, he may
actually succeed in rejecting the folkways of the school
without identifying with them and becoming guilty and
raucous; . . .
The school system, custodian of print culture, has no
place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing
hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
Some of the most memorable poems of our language concern
Wordsworth’s Lucy, on the one hand, and Yeats’ Among
School-children , on the other. Both of these are much
concerned with the poignant conflict between the order of
enclosed and uniform systems and the spontaneity of the
world of spirit. The inherent conflict that Friedenberg defines so
well is at the centre of print technology itself, which isolates